Having gone to both the Melbourne shows, I was relieved that some different songs were pulled out tonight.
First impressions were bad when the opener was the same, and Jon was out of time and out of breath by Bad Name.
Before It's My Life Jon asked who had attended yesterday and stated they had lots of different songs for us, but then proceeded to play the same setlist for another 5 songs until they played Amen.
Amen, SIBSN (accoustic), Diamond Ring and MaM completely put the crowd to sleep, but I was pleased to hear DR for the first time.
SWID finally got the crowd going again, and Phil launching into ACDC/s You Shook Me All Night Long got one of the biggest responses of the night. Everyone loved it and they would be fools not to play more ACDC on the rest of the tour.
I was hoping for a good encore and was pleasantly surprised to hear Dry County and These Days.
I Love this Town seemed to be a last minute addition, although to me it sounded strange, almost like Phil was playing the chords to WSYCGH and Jon was signing over the top of them. Maybe it was just me or the sound mix wasn't quite right.
Unfortunately for the most part Jon sounded terrible. He barely sang KTF, was terrible on BTBMB and squawked his way horribly through TD and DC. The Youtube videos will not be pretty viewing as someone mentioned.
But the crowd seemed to enjoy it, and overall so did I.
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